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The Web has exponentially increased the information sources available to both patrons and librarians. Although “current awareness” is rarely explicitly enumerated as a requirement in advertisements for librarian jobs, it ...

Three species of terrestrial slugs (Gastropoda) are native to Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada. At least twelve additional species have been accidentally introduced from Europe. Many of the introduced ...

As millions of users flock to online social networks, sites such as Facebook and Twitter are becoming increasingly attractive targets for spam, phishing, and malware. The Koobface botnet in particular has honed its efforts ...

This paper offers a somatic genealogy of Kenneth Burke’s dramatism and its related cluster--symbolic action, attitude, identification--by tracing their development in relation to Sir Richard Paget’s theory of Gesture-Speech. ...

Within the past year, both my uncle and aunt
passed away, leaving me owner of the small
unproductive southern Illinois family farm , with
its unpretentious seven-room house dating back
to the mid-1BOOs. As income from ...

This qualitative study examines the writing and writing experiences of six bilingual (Spanish-English), immigrant university students. Immigrant students are a growing segment of university populations, but explicit/implicit ...

The auditory corticocollicular projection has recently garnered much attention due to its ability to alter response properties of cells in the inferior colliculus. However, the basic anatomical organization of this pathway ...

Top-down modulation is a powerful mechanism by which the brain can disambiguate signals arriving at the sensory periphery, and descending projections are believed to be an important anatomical substrate by which this ...

We look at appropriations in a number of contexts, and find that often they involve very simple ways of coordinating functionality that seems to be at odds with much of the approach of computer systems design that emphasizes ...

NoSQL systems have grown in popularity for storing
big data because these systems offer high availability, i.e.,
operations with high throughput and low latency. However,
metadata in these systems are handled today in ...

The objective of this project was to investigate the use of existing video resources, such as traffic cameras, police cameras, red light cameras, and security cameras for the long-term, real-time collection of traffic ...

This pathfinder provides insight for you, the attorney with a LGBTQ family law issue. This pathfinder attempts to illustrate the most cost effective strategies for researching your LGBTQ legal problem.

With the adoption by UNESCO of The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003, the preservation of intangible heritage has gained greater international recognition and attention. While the ...

Goals and Objectives:
The goal of the traffic impact analysis is to examine the potential influence
of renovating Lincoln Square Village site based on changes in two scenarios.
Scenario I is to reflect the changes ...